Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1901 — GRAIN MEN IN SESSION. [ARTICLE]

GRAIN MEN IN SESSION.

Convention of National Denlero’ Association Meets in Deo Molnc«. Fully 600 delegates from all parts of the country.attended the opening meeting of the sixth annual session of the National Grain Dealers' Association in Des Moines. Gov. Leslie M. Hhaw delivered an address of welcome on behalf of the State of lowa. He said: * “When the first bushel of wheat was transported by rail from the Missouri river to the Atlantic ocean, thence by

ship to Liverpool, It cost 61 cents to thus market it. It xvas then weighed and loaded, then unloaded, put in elevators, w sighed out, reloaded, reshipped again and again, nnd at h great expeaee. It now costs 21% cents to take n bushel of wheat from the Missouri river to Liverpool.” Mayor Hartenbcwer followed in giving a welcome to the city, and the Hon. Lase Yoong extended a welcome for the Cereal Club. Responses were made for the East by K. L. Rogers of Philadelphia, for the Southwest by Henry Lassen of El Rena,

O. T.; Southeast, R. L. McKellar of Memphis, Tenn.; Northwest, J. L. MeCaull of Minneapolis, Minn., and the middle West by S. C. Woolaon of Kansas City, Mo. President B. A. Ix>ckwood of Dea Moines then delivered his annual address to the association. Stock throughout the Panhandle of Texas la in better condition than for several years past, and the cattle men do not anticipate any severe losses durinc the winter.